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Botond Roska
Membership Number:5460
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE
Elected:2020
Main Country of Residence:SWITZERLAND
Homepage(s):http://www.iob.ch
ORCID:0000-0002-9559-1450
Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/botond-roska/





Present and Previous Positions
  • 2019 Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Basel, Switzerland
  • 2018 Founding Director, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland
  • 2014 Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland
  • 2010 - 2019 Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2005 - 2010 Junior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Fields of Scholarship
  • Neuroscience
  • Genetics
  • Gene therapy
  • Eye
  • Retina
  • Brain
  • Neuronal circuit

Honours and Awards
  • 1997 Fulbright Fellow
  • 2001 Bearden Memorial Award for Biophysics, UC Berkeley
  • 2002 Harvard Junior Fellow
  • 2006 Marie Curie Excellence Grant of the European Union
  • 2009 EMBO Young Investigator
  • 2010 ERC Starting Grant
  • 2010 VIVA Award
  • 2011 Alcon Award
  • 2011 EMBO member
  • 2013 Alfred Vogt Award in Ophthalmology
  • 2015 ERC Advanced grant
  • 2016 Cogan Award of ARVO
  • 2018 Bressler Prize in Vision Science, New York
  • 2018 Alden W. Spencer Award for Neuroscience
  • 2019 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
  • 2019 Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
  • 2019 Cloëtta Prize
  • 2019 Semmelweis Budapest Award
  • 2020 ERC Advanced grant
  • 2020 Körber European Science Prize
  • 2024 Wolf Prize in Medicine (together with José-Alain Sahel) “for sight-saving and vision restoration to blind people using optogenetics

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